Fear: The Meadowvale Spookies Paranormal Research Team

M.S.P.R.T tries to calm our clients down if they are frightened. Even if it means take them outside. One of our tactics is what I call “homesteading” our client. This is when one of our members of the team keeps the clients distracted by talking to them about other ghost investigations, and whatever topics come up to keep their minds occupied while we do the investigation.

When we get a case, we screen the case to test the severity of the haunting. If it’s what I call a “ma and pa” haunting like the ghost of grandma in the kitchen, I will test run new investigators. If the haunting is a little more severe, I only bring my more seasoned and prepared investigators.

There was one investigation we had to drop not because of fear, but because there was a malevolent entity attached to the person. She was an alcoholic, and lied about a lot of things during the investigation. We told her to not try to make contact with the entity and a week later she called us back because she had a seance and wanted the entity to speak through her. We decided to drop the case because she wasn’t listening to anything we were telling her and going and deliberately making the situation worse because in our professional opinion, she was a very sick and lonely woman who wanted attention.

One lesson I learned that I pass on to other investigators is “be ready to be lied to.” When clients tell us “we didn’t do anything to open any doors to invite anything in” and then find the Ouija board under a bed somewhere, we drop the case because if they were not honest with us about that, then there is no telling what else they are not telling us. It could put my team in a very dangerous situation that I am not going to take any risks in.